Five reasons we hate the scrunchie

Why the hair accessory should be banned

Popularised in the 80s and 90s, the scrunchie was once the hair adornment de riguer. Fast-forward a couple of decades and the now passé accessory has been spotted on Hilary Clinton, Sienna Miller, Cara Delevingne – and it’s never off Cressida Bonas. Fashion, of course, is cyclical, but this is one fad that Bazaar fashion team will be ignoring for the following reasons:

1. The scrunchie is like the bandana, or the bum-bag – an unsophisticated accessory that belongs firmly in the past.

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2. There is a dangerous temptation to co-ordinate the scrunchie with your outfit – a fashion sin of immeasurable proportions.

3. Fans of the scrunchie tend to be either nineteen-year-olds, channelling 80s and 90s trends that they were not alive to experience first-hand, or frumpy middle aged women working the same looks they never left behind. If you’d like to avoid being part of these groups, avoid the scrunchie.

4. Carrie from Sex and the City famously declared that no woman of taste would ever be caught wearing a scrunchie - and she knows these things.

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